The Gilded Age quotes

Oscar van Rhijn

I know there are men out there who are younger and richer than I am. But we would live well. You would choose your own friends, run your own house, manage your own life! Isn't that what you want?

Gladys Russell

Very much so.

Oscar van Rhijn

And I'm not a bully. I would never force you to echo my opinions, parrot all my views. I am happy to be henpecked, as long as you're doing the pecking. We'd have fun, Gladys. I know we would! I want us to be happy. Very happy. And I believe we could be. Don't answer now. Just know that I love and admire you more than I can say. More than I've ever felt for any other woman.

Gladys Russell

My father wants me to wait until I fall in love.

Marian Brook

How heartening! I never thought of Mr. Russell as a romantic.

It's very early for you to be up.

Bertha Russell

It's very late for you to get home.

Paris is wonderful, apart from the Parisians.

Agnes van Rhijn

Your newfound piety may be put to good use after all.

Unions are stronger now, they will grow stronger still, and you will have to deal with them.

George Russell

I am a man of business. And I have jobs to offer in my mills, in my factories, and on my railroads, and I pay the going rate. If your men don't want to work for me, then I suggest they step aside and make way for the many who do.

Bertha Russell

Betrayal is not like a case of influenza.

George Russell

No, it feels more like a death sentence.

Mr. Dawson had a low opinion of how we give out communion.

Ada Brook

What part of it was he criticizing?

The part where I offer communion to those he deems undeserving.

Ada Brook

What you must have to put up with.

Let's just say some of God's children can be very tiresome.

I hope you enjoyed the play, Miss Russell.

Gladys Russell

Is "enjoy" the right word when a tsar is murdered, and the evening ends with the heroine stabbing herself?

So young, and already a critic.

Oscar van Rhijn

Miss Beaton is keen to help spread the Christian word.

Marian Brook

And how does that sit with you?

Oscar van Rhijn

I gladly support good causes from the comfort of Fifth Avenue.

Those flowers are for you, Ada Brook. No one else.

George Russell

Why must I be the villain in every story?!

Bertha Russell

It doesn't take much to make a duke likeable.

Bertha Russell

Should I care about the feelings of a former lady's maid who attempted to seduce my husband?

George Russell

May I find hope in your use of the word 'attempted'?

Bertha Russell

It was never her claim that hurt me, but your silence.

George Russell

Will you forgive me now?

Bertha Russell

If I do, enjoy it. There will be no more forgiveness if you hide any such thing from me again.

George Russell

I've missed you, my darling. You can't know how much.

We'd better get our skates on, Mr. Borden, if we're to host the Duke of Buckingham!